Deciding Where To Install The Messenger Agent Software - Novell GROUPWISE 7 - INTEROPERABILITY GUIDE Manual

MESSENGER CLUSTERING WORKSHEET
Under Item 5: Installation Location for Messenger
the Messenger snap-in to ConsoleOne to administrator workstations or to a shared disk.
If you plan to install the Messenger snap-in to ConsoleOne to a shared disk, under
for Messenger
disk name and file share for mapping to it, and the nodes in the cluster that it could fail over to.

49.1.3 Deciding Where to Install the Messenger Agent Software

In a Microsoft cluster, the Messenger agents must run as Windows services. When you install the
Windows Messenger Agents, you can choose between two different installation locations:
Table 49-1
Location
Each node in the
cluster
Shared disk
Because the Messenger agents must be installed as Windows services in a Microsoft cluster, you
must initially run the Messenger Installation program for each node in the cluster so that the
Windows services for the agents get created, regardless of where you are planning to run the
Messenger agents from. However, for updates, you need to run the Messenger Installation program
only once if you are running the Messenger agents from a shared disk.
MESSENGER CLUSTERING WORKSHEET
Under Item 3: Installation Location for Messenger
Messenger agent software to each node in the cluster or to a shared disk.
Continue with the planning instructions for the installation location you want to use:
"Planning the Messenger Agents on Each Node in the Cluster" on page 444
"Planning the Messenger Agents on a Shared Disk" on page 445
Planning the Messenger Agents on Each Node in the Cluster
Make sure you have filled out
nodes in the cluster where you need to install the Messenger agents. Skip to
Messenger Agent Installation" on page
444 GroupWise 7 Interoperability Guide
Administration, list the network name and IP address of the shared disk, the physical
Messenger Agent Software Installation Locations
Description
The c:\novell\nm directory is the default installation location provided by the
Messenger Installation program.
If you create a drive:\novell\nm directory on a shared disk, the Messenger
agent software and startup files fail over and fail back along with supporting files
such as the Messenger archive.
IMPORTANT: You must install to a shared disk if you do not want a separate
Messenger archive to be created on each node where the Archive Agent runs.
If you do not want to use a shared disk, you should plan to install the Archive
Agent separately outside the cluster.
item 2
Administration, mark whether you want to install
Agents, mark whether you want to install the
on the Messenger Clustering Worksheet with a complete list of
445.
Item 6: Resource
"Planning the